<p>^^ I was going to say something like that, but the fall is fairly recent…</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting workout for me. Raining and wet outside, so I had to skip the four exercises in the warm up that I do outside (high knees skipping, carioca, walking lunges, lateral shuffles) and improvise with with substitutes in the basement: reverse inchworms, Big X band walk, quadruped hip extension, band assisted leg lowering. </p>
<p>I also added a second core exercise: [stability</a> ball deadbugs<a href=“aarrgh”>/url</a> to the plank and side plank with leg and arm lifts.</p>
<p>Every workout has a high point. Today, the [url=<a href=“Feet Elevated Push-Up - YouTube”>Feet Elevated Push-Up - YouTube]push</a> ups with my feet in the Jungle Gym straps](<a href=“tonygentilcore.com Stability Ball Deadbug.mov - YouTube”>tonygentilcore.com Stability Ball Deadbug.mov - YouTube) felt particularly strong. It’s my favorite push up, great for the upper body and killer core exercise, too.</p>
<p>My head is too fuzzy from cold/flu to know if there’s anything shaking around inside it. ;)</p>
<p>Seriously, not bad. I’m hoping it will clear up by tomorrow. Took a rest day today.</p>
<p>Uh oh. Cold and flu season.</p>
<p>Uh-oh… Please stay healthy, dear friends! Wash our hands religiously!</p>
<p>Day off for me - I exercised my brain instead of my body today.</p>
<p>I had to go to my first physical because of requiremnt of my H’s insurance, I finally decided that maybe I should have 2 coverages. Well, blood test showed everything normal, except for HDL which was much higher than the range so it was listen in Abnormal column . Big surprize was the normal potassium, the expectation was to have it low since I cramped my muscles often. Nope. Another one was protein and calcium. I do not believe in consuming high amount of protein, I do not believe in Calcium and vitamin D supplementation either. Apparently, my low protein diet is fine. When I tried to research it, I could not find anything in Google, there is nothing on HDL being too high. Then, I will not worry about it. No doctors recommendations on changing anything at all, not even weight. So I will continue the same including eating food that I personally love (lots of chocolate and nuts and tons of fruit and a bit of other things in between). Do not fix if it is not broken, I suppose.
We walked our entire route yesterday (finally!). So, 1.5 miles swimming and about 3.8 miles walking. Will try to fit some weights today, maybe just couple machines.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a company requiring physicals for spouses before.</p>
<p>Is this a new thing with insurance companies?</p>
<p>I am something of a salmon fanatic. So is my DH. We just adore it and have purchased about every type out there – farmed, wild, King, sockeye, silver, canned, frozen, kippered, smoked and fresh.</p>
<p>So, occasionally (and I mean very occasionally) a higher end grocery will have excellent fresh wild salmon available at a reasonable price. When I stumble upon that, I buy some, of course.</p>
<p>Otherwise, the very best bet in our opinion is Triden flash frozen wild Alaskan salmon fillets at Costco. It comes in a bag with about 8 to 10 fillets and costs $25 to $26. Each fillet is cleaned, skin on (important for the fatty acids and flavor), and individually frozen at sea soon after being caught. We honestly have never found frozen salmon anywhere to equal it in terms of quality and price and convenience. You can take out a couple of fillets from the freezer, defrost in a pan of water in 20 minutes and ready to cook.</p>
<p>Canned salmon is one of the most concentrated forms of omega-3 and calcium you can find because the bones are pressure cooked and edible. It’s delicious in a spread or just on toast with some butter. 
We like the Trader Joe’s canned wild salmon best – reasonably priced and good quality.</p>
<p>I enjoy Whole Foods and visit it about once a month. I consider its seafood absurdly overpriced, and not particularly good quality. Great ambience in the store though.</p>
<p>MiamiDap – farm raised salmon is really yuck, imo. Have you ever been to a salmon farm? Not for the faint of heart.</p>
<p>^ The supplier for one of Costco’s smoked salmon products, based in the Netherlands, just reported a big salmonella outbreak associated with one of their products. Might want to check if you have some at home. Costco hasn’t issued a recall yet, but I am sure they will soon.</p>
<p>BCEagle- I have not heard of an insurance company for an employer plan requiring a spouse physical for coverage, but you can base premium reductions on certain things like healthy readings on screenings. That would require a physical in order to get the rate reduction.</p>
<p>"I’ve never heard of a company requiring physicals for spouses before.
Is this a new thing with insurance companies? "</p>
<p>-Insurance did not require anything at all. Employer require physician signed form. Most people (all?) obtained it without any physical. Since I never had one, my doc. refused. So, I had to have it. I wanted to have another coverage and this one includes fitness center membership for free (also second for us)</p>
<p>"The supplier for one of Costco’s smoked salmon products, based in the Netherlands, just reported a big salmonella outbreak associated with one of their products. Might want to check if you have some at home. Costco hasn’t issued a recall yet, but I am sure they will soon. "
-They did. they called each customer personally. However, if you paid cash, sorry, out of luck!</p>
<p>So, my aches and pains seem to have abated. Have no idea what was causing it. Oddly, the last two days my DH has been feeling that way so I’m wondering if it was some sort of subtle flu. Also a throbbing head. Mysterious.</p>
<p>The other thing I wonder is whether I was inadvertently drinking too little coffee too abruptly. I generally have two cups of espresso each morning and was hurrying to run with the neighbors and barely finishing one cup. So maybe it was all about caffeine withdrawal.</p>
<p>It’s weird how our own bodies and how we feel can be so hard to parse.</p>
<p>My last company started charging smokers extra about a year ago - $50/month IIRC.</p>
<p>When asked if they were going to start charging extra for people who are overweight, they ducked the question and wouldn’t answer it directly.</p>
<p>It is only a matter of time IMO.</p>
<p>My H’s company did not care for test results, they do not care about smoking, weight or any other health hasards in your life style. All they care is to have a paper signed by physician on their file. The paper has only signature, date, and doc’s license, nothing else. It states that you are up to date with tests and it is required only when you get on coverage. I do not need to have more physicals.</p>
<p>notrichenough- I actually researched the issue of docking overweight people on insurance premiums (or refusing to hire them period) at my last job. (I was the HR attorney, among other things.) It’s a thorny subject and you get into the realm of “What is a disability.”</p>
<p>I think that it’s a lot easier (in terms of the amount of conflict) to just keep pushing weight and exercise programs from the fitness center.</p>
<p>We get at least daily emails on fitness center stuff going on. I actually find it annoying but the fitness center manager has programs, contests, and events on a regular basis. She knows that the regulars come down and do their own thing day-in and day-out. She’s after the on-and-off again fitness center users.</p>
<p>My personal opinion on one thing that we could do at the office to help people lose weight: get rid of the free sodas and juices in the office. I’d say that about half the office drinks water, coffee or tea these days and about half of the soda drinkers drink diet. The folks that drink sugar/HFCS soda don’t know any better.</p>
<p>I agreed that. It work for me.</p>
<p>MOWC - that’s interesting that a company might be worried that obesity falls into the disability category. Wouldn’t nicotine addiction be considered a disability? Although smokers are such pariahs these days, maybe there is an exception.</p>
<p>Can a company work around it by offering discounts to employees who are not overweight?</p>
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Frozen at Sea?? I believe salmon are freshwater fish… Are there any saltwater ones?</p>